Love Songs

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Love Songs by Sara Teasdale

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To E.

I have remembered beauty in the night,

Against black silences I waked to see

A shower of sunlight over Italy

And green Ravello dreaming on her height;

I have remembered music in the dark,

The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,

And running water singing on the rocks

When once in English woods I heard a lark.

But all remembered beauty is no more

Than a vague prelude to the thought of you --

You are the rarest soul I ever knew,

Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;

My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,

And when I think of you, I am at rest.

Prefatory Note

Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from "Rivers to the Sea", "Helen of Troy and Other Poems", and one or two from an earlier volume.

Contents 1 Part I 2 Part II: Interlude - Songs out of Sorrow 3 Part III 4 Part IV: A November Night

[edit] Part I

1. Barter
2. Twilight
3. Night Song at Amalfi
4. The Look
5. A Winter Night
6. A Cry
7. Gifts
8. But Not to Me
9. Song at Capri
10. Child, Child
11. Love Me
12. Pierrot
13. Wild Asters
14. The Song for Colin
15. Four Winds
16. Debt
17. Faults
18. Buried Love
19. The Fountain
20. I Shall Not Care
21. After Parting
22. A Prayer
23. Spring Night
24. May Wind
25. Tides
26. After Love
27. New Love and Old
28. The Kiss
29. Swans
30. The River
31. November
32. Spring Rain
33. The Ghost
34. Summer Night, Riverside
35. Jewels

[edit] Part II: Interlude - Songs out of Sorrow

1. I. Spirit's House
2. II. Mastery
3. III. Lessons
4. IV. Wisdom
5. V. In a Burying Ground
6. VI. Wood Song
7. VII. Refuge

[edit] Part III

1. The Flight
2. Dew
3. To-Night
4. Ebb-Tide
5. I Would Live in Your Love
6. Because
7. The Tree of Song
8. The Giver
9. April Song
10. The Wanderer
11. The Years
12. Enough
13. Come
14. Joy
15. Riches
16. Dusk in War Time
17. Peace
18. Moods
19. House of Dreams
20. Lights
21. "I Am Not Yours"
22. Doubt
23. The Wind
24. Morning
25. Other Men
26. Embers
27. Message
28. The Lamp

[edit] Part IV: A November Night

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1933, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.